While the majority of lynching victims were African-American men and boys, the majority of female lynching victims were African-American women and girls.
The lynching of Black women has sometimes been understudied by academics and overlooked by the general public.
The role of white women as perpetrators of lynching is also understudied.
Other women lynching victims were Indigenous, Latina, or Asian.
[6] Following the lynching of Eliza Woods in 1896, the investigative journalist and civil rights activist Ida B.